Elisabeth Jerichau Baumann
Prolific Danish painter of portraits and Orientalism
Elisabeth Jerichau-Baumann was a Polish-Danish painter, best known for her famous painting Mother Denmark (1851, The Glyptotek). She was born in Poland but left the country aged 19. After having spent time in Germany, where she attended the Academy of Arts in Düsseldorf, she moved to Rome in 1845. Here she met the Danish sculptor Jens Adolf Jerichau. The married in 1846 and moved to Denmark three years later. Elisabeth Jerichau-Baumann was very prolific and painted many portraits, e.g. Johanne Louise Heiberg (1852, State Museum of Art) and historical genre pieces such as A Wounded Danish Warrior (1865, State Museum of Art). Inspired from travels to North Africa and Turkey she also painted several Orientalist pieces of women and harems. She did not receive the acknowledgement in Denmark that she longed for but had great succes abroad, with several large exhibitions in various European cities. In her memoirs Memories of my Youth (1874) and Varied Travel Images (1881), Elisabeth Jerichau-Baumann tells about her life as a woman and an artist, two conditions that were difficult to combine during her lifetime.
Artworks by this artist (21 total)
- Brystbillede af en kvinde, der fletter sit hår 1833
- En Moder med sit Barn 1852
- En italienerinde med to børn
- Dronning Olga af Grækenland 1868
- Princess Nazili Hanum 1875
- Et barn i sin vugge 1852
- Ældre kvinde i profil 1866
- An Egyptian Fellah Woman with her Baby 1872
- The Sculptor Jens Adolf Jerichau, the Artist’s Husband 1846
- A Wounded Danish Soldier 1865
- Young Mother and her Child 1880
- Kvindehoved
- Forfatterinden Emma Kraft 1834 - 1881
- Amagerpige 1853
- An Egyptian Pot Seller at Gizeh 1899
- Marie Jerichau 10½ år gammel 1861
- Italienerinde smykker et madonnabillede med guirlande
- Moers lille bitte Harald tegnet af moer self 1852
- Første studie til billedet med kvinderne ved fontæ i A 1845
- En ung pige læser op af Bibelen 1854